Names of 80+ players were named in yesterday’s Mitchell report on steroid use, including Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Gary Sheffield, and Miguel Tejada.  With a lack of cooperation from the players and no subpoena power, Mitchell’s hands were tied.  The fact that he still found 80 names has to be disturbing. 

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When the 76ers Fired GM Billy King and replaced him with Nets’ GM Ed Stefanski on Tuesday, most of us were caught off guard.  After trading Allen Iverson to Denver a year ago, the plan was to go young and clear salary cap space for after this season.  This season was expected to be a tough one, where a mostly young roster was going to have to take its lumps.  King was allowed to make the Iverson deal, execute the buyout of Chris Webber, and make the 3 1^st round draft picks last June, so conventional wisdom was that King would/should be around to finish the ... Read More »

Andy Reid obviously was one of the many who overrated A.J. Feeley’s performance against New England.  I say this because he called 46 passing plays to only 28 runs.  With his backup QB.  On a miserable rainy day.  Meanwhile, in a 4-point loss to Seattle yesterday, Brian Westbrook had only 7 carries in the Eagles’ final 8 possessions, while A.J. “not the messiah after all” Feeley threw 4 picks.

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